| Entry: | Today I continued excavating the room fill 31199, continuing what had already been done yesterday in the eastern part by TET. I found some big pottery sherds, two ground stone, a giant rib, two worked bone, and a kind of weird pinkish-orange earth spot that might be pigment. We are digging in a L-shape, due to the two section profiles and it is starting to be a sort of uncomfortable narrow trench to dig in. The remnants of the southern wall might well indeed be northern than I previously thought. So I went 10 cm lower than the plaster levels in the section, just to be sure that no other one is coming, and tomorrow we will remove the plaster layers north of the section until the remains of the buttresses, so as to have a better overview and more space for the legs! I also cleaned the remaining sloping plaster to see how the plaster on top of the western buttress is connecting to the floor. It is the same layer 31142 that is going down all the way to the surface. Removing it up to the buttress, it appeared that it is however much thicker than in the profile, with massive bedding, and directly above 31174 except at the very edge where we still spot the other layers of the slope. Unit 31174 seems moreover to stop about halfway to the buttress, where the fill/slope gets higher. Tomorrow I will hopefully finish removing the plaster and go on excavating the room fill! |
